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From: dwn@swbatl.sbc.com (David Neill-OKCy Mktg 405-278-4007)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Working with sed
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.174333.6371@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 17:43:33 GMT
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Reply-To: dwn@swbatl.UUCP (David Neill-OKCy Mktg 405-278-4007)
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>In article <27372@unix.cis.pitt.edu> nr3m@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Matthew A Henry) writes:
>I'm writing a script that uses sed,
>and am having trouble with one
>part.  I have a file that contains typical unix paths, one per
>line, and would like to remove everything after the last forward 
>slash (/).

sed -e 's/\/[^\/]*$//' filename

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